How many copies did Ballad of The Masked Bandits sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 68 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Ballad of The Masked Bandits make?

Ballad of The Masked Bandits is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Ballad of The Masked Bandits?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 2k–3k; from 68 reviews (Mostly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Ballad of The Masked Bandits and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ballad of The Masked Bandits's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–6.1M

best case 56.0M (PAYDAY 2)

Games like Ballad of The Masked Bandits

A typical game among these

≈ 2.1M–6.1M copies

≈ $24.9M–$53.6M after Steam's cut

from ~67k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: PAYDAY 2 at ≈ 42.7M–69.3M copies, ≈ $117.2M–$315.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 24 reviews in their first month; the range was 13 to 39k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Stealth (7 of 8) and Heist (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + FPS, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Tumblefire 2022	Est. copies ≈ 446–725 too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$9.99	18 reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessHeist
Thief Simulator 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.7M–$17.9M after Steam's cut $12.1M–$27.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	40k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Stealth
Chess Knights: High Noon 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $978–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$2.99	48 reviews Mixed	WesternTurn-Based Tactics
HITMAN™ 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	37k reviews Very Positive	StealthAction
PAYDAY 2 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.7M–69.3M 10x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $117.2M–$315.1M after Steam's cut $213.1M–$484.7M before Steam's cut	$9.99	675k reviews Very Positive	Co-opAction
Dishonored 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.0M–$61.8M after Steam's cut $41.8M–$95.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	67k reviews Very Positive	StealthFirst-Person
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.3M–8.6M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $29.1M–$78.2M after Steam's cut $52.9M–$120.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	108k reviews Very Positive	StealthOpen World
PAYDAY 3 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.5M–$36.3M after Steam's cut $24.6M–$55.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	66k reviews Mixed	HeistCo-op